OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!
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Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
The natural world can offer us more than the means to survive, on the one hand, or mortal risks to be avoided, on the other: it can offer us joy. […]
There can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy.
Good morning good people,
What the world needs, what we all need, is a future.
Camping on the isolated Watauga, just before the gorge and Tennessee, little Ava splashed and swam backwards with eyes open and backwards with eyes closed, "Look, look what i can do. swim with my eyes closed." The joy of her play imbibing, endearing thoughts of assimilation of it all making sense as i sat, feet in foaming cool river.
With Mother gone and the mountain family just hanging on, what becomes of Ava? Will the joy last as she grows into a country presently denying nature's importance and in so denying nature denies humans, too?
Which revolution can bring change, significant change, move us away from the old dispensations, ways of thinking?
The natural world is not separate from us, it is part of us. It is as much a part of us as our capacity for language; we are bonded to it still, however hard it may be to perceive the union in the tumult of modern urban life. Yet the union can be found, the union of ourselves and nature, in the joy which nature can spark and fire in us.
Simply put, find joy in nature and share the feelings, it's a start to evolving into new paradigms.
I can't embed this podcast, don't know how, but highly recommend your listening: Nature, Joy and Human Becoming ~ Michael McCarthy, On Being Studios. https://radio.subcast.com/mindfulness-radio/nature-joy-and-human-becomin...
Hoping everyone has had a good holiday and cheers to a great day!
The porch is yours...
Comments
Repubs war on Medicare and Social Security Begins
Just posting this for the record since no one essayed its ass.
The Repubs have been so very busy behind closed doors. (cue Mr Burns sinister laugh)
Time to go stake out a prime spot under the town bridge. Because you can be sure Donnie the Douchebag will sign this when it finally comes to a vote. Repubs have had a hard-on to do this since 1946.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Morning, CoE, so much urgency everywhere, one thing
Donnie was right about, they move fast these asshats destroying everything in their wake. The financial situation combined with the tariff wars reek of pre-great-depression DC.
Viva la revolution, bout all i can say, shout the news from the rooftops until it's heard, hoping it's not too little too late.
Into the Dungeon with evil men
[...]
Come out of the closet
Come out of the hole
Come out of the woodwork
Come into the fold
[...]
Open your windows
Open your doors
Open your minds
To a freedom of thought
Raise our voices...
~Songwriters: Keith Warren / Melvin Leroy Ellis / Michael Davison / Peter Jonnathan Davison
Thanks for the heads-up, CoE, and have a good day!
BTW, interesting OT theme
I take a daily hike at a park on woodland trails. I was monitoring my blood pressure a while back and discovered after the walk my BP was consistently down significantly (by 20 points or more).
Yay Nature! Truly one of the best things in life.
Viva La Revolution!
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
See you all in a few hours!
Meetup today at Cartlandia! Just looking forward to seeing everybody talking ideas, and stepping away from the chaos of the world, for just a little.
As far as finding joy in nature, it's a great joy. I'm also finding joy in simply being human. Civilization can be a part of nature, I believe. Of course, there's also the difference between a garden and wild. I've always preferred my gardens a bit more wild, with animals, high grass and flowers that bloom as they will.
I'm rambling, but I don't believe that my thoughts need to be leashed today. I've had some great ideas about writing when I'm done with my current project, and look forward to continuing.
And some music for the hell of it.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Heh, have a great meet-up!
last of morning here
Trade day was filled with melons today - got cantaloupes and a watermelon. Now off to Blount county AL for the annual party at the common ground land trust. Temps are cooler today so we may have a nice gathering. Usually manage to play a few tunes and songs there too. Swimming is the main activity and figure I'll get in a dip as well. So connecting with people and nature today. How you all have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Sounds like fun, Lookout, nice and cool here as well
with a soft rain; may go fishing, depends on energy, this weather tends to napping.
Downloaded the podcast
to my phone and will listen at bedtime. Sounds nice.
Thanks for the connect to nature encouragement.
While you get cabin fever in Minnesota in the winter, it comes to Texas in the summer. But if you can get outside at 6 AM it is always beautiful at least until 8. Sometimes longer if it is cloudy and windy.
I like wild gardens as well. Very delightful to find plants growing volunteer.
Wishing you all a peaceful weekend!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Hope you enjoy the podcast, Marilyn; i'd like to read
his book: The Moth Snowstorm
“A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage, and love. The Moth Snowstorm is at once a deeply affecting memoir and a heartbreaking account of ecological impoverishment. It fights against indifference, shines with the deep magic and beauty of the nonhuman lives around us, and shows how their loss lessens us all. A must-read.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk; NY book Review.
Stay as cool as TX allows and happy gardening!